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In his 1958-1959 Seminar, Desire and Its Interpretation, Lacan reads Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a means of pitting the question of mourning against the problems of the dissolution of the Oedipus complex. He is bringing us back to the original ground of Oedipus as revealed by Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) in the section on “Dreams of the Death of Persons of Whom one is Fond” where he also points to Hamlet as a critical example of its effects on character.

Hamlet, after the death of his father, cannot locate his desire; something we witness in his beautiful soliloquies on the question of contemplation, grief, and action. For Lacan, the beauty with which Hamlet’s inhibition and self-reflexivity is presented veils a much more violent disposition- seen most clearly in his relations with his women, Gertrude and Ophelia. This constellation, namely Hamlet’s failed mourning, fall into narcissism, and consequent horror of femininity, gives us renewed insight into the stakes of the Oedipus complex. Through a few key scenes of Branagh’s film version of Hamlet, I hope to illustrate what is fascinating in Lacan’s reading of the play.

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